As recently as a generation ago, the fact that Kobe Bryant is black and the woman who has accused him of rape is white would probably have been enough to reawaken at least a few of the ghosts that rattle around America's racial attic. Many men have...

Judge W. Terry Ruckriegle, who presides over the Kobe Bryant rape case, has become the man people love to hate. In asking this week for a delay in the trial, the prosecutor in the case said that errors by Judge Ruckriegle's court have tainted the...

August 14, 2004, Saturday

Speaking out for the first time, the father of the woman who accused the basketball star Kobe Bryant of rape criticized the judge in the case and said his family had ''lost trust'' that the woman would receive justice in court. A letter to Judge...

The judge in the sexual assault case against the basketball star Kobe Bryant indicated that he wanted to settle a First Amendment fight with the news media by releasing at least some details from a closed hearing on the accuser's sexual activities...

For all the parties in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case, the judge's decision on Friday to allow extensive evidence about the sex life of Mr. Bryant's accuser presents a fundamentally new road map for how the upcoming trial will unfold. The...

Detailed evidence about the sex life of the woman who accused the basketball star Kobe Bryant of rape last summer is legally relevant and can be presented at Mr. Bryant's trial when it begins next month, the judge in the case ruled on Friday. ...

Colorado's highest court ruled yesterday that the judge in the rape trial of the basketball star Kobe Bryant was justified in barring the news media from publishing court documents detailing the sex life of Mr. Bryant's accuser even though the trial...

The judge in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case barred evidence from a medical examination performed on Mr. Bryant, saying investigators had not had the proper search warrant to take him to the hospital in the middle of the night. The judge, W....